In the absence of the UK Parliament providing pensions news, attention turns to the European Parliament and the Committee of Inquiry into the collapse of Equitable Life.
Pensions is just one of those topics you can’t escape from - and if you’re honest you probably don’t really want to – but in this case it is an ongoing issue which has so far lasted for around seven years. Now I know pensions are a long-term investment but this is ridiculous! Equitable shut its doors in 2000 and since then it has been an ongoing round of court cases, reports and inquiries and the latest in a long line is the draft report from the EU’s Committee of Inquiry, which was released at the end of March. Since then, a number of meetings by the Committee to discuss the recommen...
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